Law & Medicine
Did misdiagnosis cause a man to die from cardiac tamponade?
Emergency Medicine. 2012 February;44(2):26
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Commentary by Francis L. Counselman, MD, Associate Editor-In-Chief and Neal E. Flomenbaum, MD, Editor-In-Chief
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